Does Lorick #144 bedevil you? Read it... and weep! I&#39;m ecstatic, I&#39;m manic, a child I make love into music -- I&#39;m wild! I&#39;m not too discreet and have devilish feet with libido and fear, I beguile! Hint: I spark contagious fears; I&#39;m by shepherds, revered.

1445: #144 solved; Week 048 Wrapped with Se'nnightly Synopsis

Think you can solve thrice-weekly riddles from mythology, folklore, history, and literature? 
Try this Lorick on for size:

A tempestuous prince was misled
by incestuous king, hast'ly wed
there's a ghost, and a play,
and soliloquies fey...
in the end, nearly everyone's dead!

Hint: his father ghosted him.

Answer: Hamlet! Get it?

Lorick's host? Me, Yorick! Most soliloquized skull of all time! 

If you're ready to match wits with a skeletal skald who wields riddles ranging from Alice to Apollo, Homer to Herodotus, and from Rapunzel to Ragnarok - then listen! 

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